34 Your hands were not bound
Nor your feet put into fetters;
As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell.” Then all the people wept over him again.

35 And when all the people came ^ato persuade David to eat food while it was still day, David took an oath, saying, ^b“God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else ^ctill the sun goes down!”  ‡

37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s intent to kill Abner the son of Ner.

38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?